no code implementations • NAACL (CMCL) 2021 • Miloš Stanojević, Shohini Bhattasali, Donald Dunagan, Luca Campanelli, Mark Steedman, Jonathan Brennan, John Hale
Hierarchical sentence structure plays a role in word-by-word human sentence comprehension, but it remains unclear how best to characterize this structure and unknown how exactly it would be recognized in a step-by-step process model.
no code implementations • 30 Oct 2023 • Zhengliang Liu, Yiwei Li, Qian Cao, Junwen Chen, Tianze Yang, Zihao Wu, John Hale, John Gibbs, Khaled Rasheed, Ninghao Liu, Gengchen Mai, Tianming Liu
Recent advances in artificial general intelligence (AGI), particularly large language models and creative image generation systems have demonstrated impressive capabilities on diverse tasks spanning the arts and humanities.
no code implementations • COLING (CRAC) 2022 • Shulin Zhang, Jixing Li, John Hale
Pro-drop is commonly seen in many languages, but its discourse motivations have not been well characterized.
no code implementations • 7 Jul 2022 • Alexandre Pasquiou, Yair Lakretz, John Hale, Bertrand Thirion, Christophe Pallier
Neural Language Models (NLMs) have made tremendous advances during the last years, achieving impressive performance on various linguistic tasks.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Sabrina Stehwien, Lena Henke, John Hale, Jonathan Brennan, Lars Meyer
The planned release of the LPPC combines linguistic and EEG data for many languages using fully automatic methods, and thus constitutes a readily extendable resource that supports cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary research.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Shohini Bhattasali, Jonathan Brennan, Wen-Ming Luh, Berta Franzluebbers, John Hale
The Alice Datasets are a set of datasets based on magnetic resonance data and electrophysiological data, collected while participants heard a story in English.
no code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • John Hale, Adhiguna Kuncoro, Keith Hall, Chris Dyer, Jonathan Brennan
Domain-specific training typically makes NLP systems work better.
no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Shohini Bhattasali, Murielle Fabre, John Hale
Multiword expressions have posed a challenge in the past for computational linguistics since they comprise a heterogeneous family of word clusters and are difficult to detect in natural language data.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Jixing Li, Murielle Fabre, Wen-Ming Luh, John Hale
The current study examined the role of syntactic structure during pronoun resolution.
no code implementations • ACL 2018 • Adhiguna Kuncoro, Chris Dyer, John Hale, Dani Yogatama, Stephen Clark, Phil Blunsom
Language exhibits hierarchical structure, but recent work using a subject-verb agreement diagnostic argued that state-of-the-art language models, LSTMs, fail to learn long-range syntax sensitive dependencies.
no code implementations • ACL 2018 • John Hale, Chris Dyer, Adhiguna Kuncoro, Jonathan R. Brennan
Model comparisons attribute the early peak to syntactic composition within the RNNG.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Jixing Li, Murielle Fabre, Wen-Ming Luh, John Hale
Typological differences between English and Chinese suggest stronger reliance on salience of the antecedent during pronoun resolution in Chinese.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Matthew Nelson, Stanislas Dehaene, Christophe Pallier, John Hale
Using the Entropy Reduction incremental complexity metric, we relate high gamma power signals from the brains of epileptic patients to incremental stages of syntactic analysis in English and French.
no code implementations • WS 2016 • Jixing Li, Jonathan Brennan, Adam Mahar, John Hale
The relative contributions of meaning and form to sentence processing remains an outstanding issue across the language sciences.